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What Does the Future Hold for Conversion Optimization?

ConversionXL

As Ronny Kohavi , Distinguished Engineer, General Manager, Analysis and Experimentation at Microsoft, put it: Ronny Kohavi: “Experimentation is getting more recognized as essential to guide product development, when it is applicable (not always, as you can see in Section 6 in this paper ). heterogeneous treatment effects).”.

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Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

Steve Blank

It wasn’t always perfect, but it was way more right than wrong, It informed our product development to a great degree and kept us working on more or less the right stuff. The choice of the SQL a way to ask questions (queries) in an easy-to-understand language. Back then he advocated for.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre of the type of organization that doesnt use db access objects directly, but simply passes SQL statements through a central API, you can try this: consider the entity identifier as part of the statement itself. Nearly every SQL query I see has a join. And, it will lead the developer to write badly normalized databases.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

SQL database hosting from browser.Python/Javascript APIs. Great for visualizing work of product development. continuous integration and unit testing, code quality analysis, pre-tested commits, reporting on build problems. Sauce Labs â?? cross-browser testing in the cloud. Rdbhost.com â?? sketch uml diagrams. Kanbanery â??